More than a hundred reference titles in a variety of areas: business and careers, education, fashion, food, film and television, geography, history, law and government, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

Search all five at once or browse them individually. Each includes articles from reference works, primary sources, biographies, timelines, images, and maps, charts and tables. Recommended for grades six and up.

Digitized fire insurance maps for the state of Illinois, including over a hundred volumes for the city of Chicago. If looking for a location in Chicago or a nearby suburb, start with the Chicago Sanborn Maps Index and note the series (1894-1897 or 1905-1951) and volumes for the neighborhood or suburb.

Older issues of more than 700 scholarly journals in a wide range of interest areas. Coverage begins with the first issue, but recent issues are not included. Recent issues of some of these journals are available in EBSCO Magazines & Journals. In library only

Historical Newspapers

Full text, including display and classified advertisements, of this nationally significant African American newspaper from 1910 to 1975. (To search for articles in this paper from 1999 to the present, use Black Newspapers or Illinois Newsstand.)

Full text of more than 500 U.S. newspapers from 1836 to 1922. Chicago-area papers are The Broad Ax, an African American newspaper digitized from 1895 to 1922; The Day Book, E.W. Scripps' experiment in advertisement-free newspaper publishing digitized from 1911 to 1917 and The Chicago Eagle, a publication with a strong focus on municipal political affairs digitized from 1894 to 1920.

The Chicago History Museum's online catalog allows you to search over 55,000 photographs taken by the photographers of the Chicago Daily News. Limit your search to just the Chicago Daily News images using Advanced Search. Click on Reference Copy from any full record to view the full image.